Security Warnings for Americans in Germany 4/20/07
 

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/...-US-Terror.php

Is this something we should be worried about? Were planning on being in Munich and Germany Alps region in a few weeks.

Wife saw this report and now cannot stop worrying. Any thoughts?

Do you plan on staying at the embassy? Might be the safest place now :D :D

Hi P,

Stop worrying.

This is solely a CYA announcement.

It follows on the worldwide announcement of April 10.

See http://tinyurl.com/a6s8u

((I))

better than no warning. just use common sense everywhere and don't worry

Forget it.

The assessment says, Germany has now reached the same risk level as the USA (used to be lower). It has no practical consequences.

No paranoia, please.

American authorities seem to issue this kind of warnings regularly. The rest of the world just shrug their shoulders about them.

Warnings like this are coming out all the time. If you pay attention to every such warning you will never go anywhere.

There is no place in this world where your safety is guaranteed. Go on with life and don't worry about it.

<<< Warnings like this are coming out all the time. >>>

Has the US government ever heard of "Chicken Little"?

Don't issue one and something happens? Then you get outraged howls for firings!

So why not just issue one world to that effect "that the whole world is unsafe for Americans" and then they are covered for anything.

Good idea alan, but then all the tourist dollars dry up and people whine overseas.

Alan, your point about chicken little is well taken. I have lost count of how many times I was planning a trip and the US government issued a warning about the place I was going. I just don't pay attention anymore, because am I really any safer by staying in the US?

That's very foolish, PM, to disregard travel announcements and warnings-tourists have been killed for doing the same thing-but yes, to answer your question, in terms of terrorist attacks, you are absolutely safer in this country than in Europe-of that, there is no question.

You are entitled to your opinion, I'm not buying it. There is no way to predict when or where the next attack will occur and I refuse to hide away and live my life in fear.

Girlsytravel,

It was not a WARNING. And I do believe you're living in a bubble if you think this totally inept administration is adept at doing anything other than spreading fear.

Safer in the US than in Western Europe? I wonder. At least Western Europe gun murders are a lot less then in the US. But anyway, everything is a gamble. Insurance statistics use to show people are more apt to be injured or killed at home or within 5 miles of their home (due to accidents or crime) then anywhere else. I don't know if the statistics have changed or not. Anyway penne, go and enjoy Germany. I too saw that article..it wouldn't stop me from visiting Germany.

Girlspytravel, of all the warnings that have been issued, how many of these have actually come true? Few if any.

I personally feel safer in Europe than I do walking some of the city streets here in the US. Terrorist attacks can happen anywhere, but random street violence doesn't seem to be much of a problem in Europe when compared to the US, mostly because one can't just go out and buy a firearm at a moment's notice.

I also look at the travel warnings but tend to take them with a grain of salt unless the US elevates the level due to recent activity. It seems like half the places in the world have some sort of travel warning attached to them. Just use common sense and you should be fine.

Tracy

I'd wager that the number of tourists who've been killed for disregarding these routine travel warnings is FAR lower than the number of tourists who've been killed just by being somewhere at the wrong time when no such warning has been given.

At any rate, you can walk out your front door and be hit by a bus on any given day or be the victim of a drive-by shooting (something I don't think happens ever, if at all, in Europe). I can't ever see altering my travel plans for one of these piss-ant warnings. Unless full-scale war has broken out in my travel destination, I'm on that plane!

Very well said, tcreath. Recent events can be a whole different ball game, but when the statement is as vague as this one, I would never let it alter my plans.